Goals and Goal Setting Quotations

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter. Lee Iacocca A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. Victor Cousins Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley (as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog) A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life. Samuel Butler Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Michel de Montaigne Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. Kahlil Gibran Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. Aldous Huxley If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. Polybius Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor Frankl The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. Richard Monckton Milnes To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift. Franklin Roosevelt There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it. Burmese Saying In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. Author Unknown Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. David Ogilvy There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second. Logan Pearsall Smith